STOP! RE-EVALUATE! RE-IMAGINE!
With the first public meeting on the Champlain Parkway in nine years just a week away, a new group, Safe Streets Burlington (SSB), encourages anyone supportive of re-design of the Champlain Parkway to quality and safe walk and bike facilities to attend the public meeting devoted entirely to the current design of the Champlain Parkway. SSB also supports re-design from complete lack of quality and safe vehicle travel facilities along the Parkway route.
With the first public meeting on the Champlain Parkway in nine years just a week away, a new group, Safe Streets Burlington (SSB), encourages anyone supportive of re-design of the Champlain Parkway to quality and safe walk and bike facilities to attend the public meeting devoted entirely to the current design of the Champlain Parkway. SSB also supports re-design from complete lack of quality and safe vehicle travel facilities along the Parkway route.
The Champlain Parkway meeting happens at
7 p.m. Monday November 30, 2015 at the Champlain Elementary School adjacent to Champlain Chocolates on Pine Street.
7 p.m. Monday November 30, 2015 at the Champlain Elementary School adjacent to Champlain Chocolates on Pine Street.
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Popup Human Space on Pine St.--Arts Riot 2015 |
The meeting occurs nine years to the
day—November 30, 2006—when the final public input meeting
occurred in the project development process which led to the 2009
the base authorization document, the Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS). The Parkway first formal planning meetings began a full
half century ago in 1965.
The City's official walk/bike
advisory group, Burlington Walk Bike Council (BWBC) after six
months discussion and analysis sent a detailed set of
recommendations in December 2014 to Mayor Weinberger and Department
of Public Works (DPW) calling for a numerous changes including:
the safest and separate walk and bike facilities throughout the
Parkway, the safest for all users intersections--modern
roundabouts--and maintaining connectivity to Queen City Park Road
and shopping areas southward with a roundabout at the base of Pine
Street.
In addition, SSB calls for investing
in a better economy for east side businesses
on Pine Street from Howard Street to
Curtis Lumber by a six-foot re-alignment
moving six feet of greenway from the
west side of Pine to the east side which enables wider
sidewalks/plaza space as well as additional green space.
The current Parkway design features
none of the BWBC recommendations or the street re-alignment sought
by SSB. Safe Streets Burlington asks community leaders carefully
examine the approved North Avenue Corridor Plan (NACP) which
includes the important features recommended by both BWBC and SSB.
SSB in view of the current design
takes the position: “Stop! Re-Evaluate! Re- Imagine!” The SSB
website is: www.SafeStreetsBurlington.com